Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Information Technology Director
Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension
Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa
Required Number: One
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: May 05, 2019
BACKGROUND
The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) is a strategy and delivery oriented government agency created to help accelerate the growth and transformation of the country’s agriculture sector. The ATA envisions that, by 2025, smallholder farmers are commercialized with greater incomes, inclusiveness, resilience and sustainability, contributing to Ethiopia’s achievement of middle-income country status.
The agency focuses on two primary national approaches to catalyze agricultural transformation. First, we support the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Resources (MoALR), its affiliate institutions, and other partners to identify and address systemic bottlenecks within an Agricultural Transformation Agenda. Second, we support Regional Governments to accelerate development of high-priority commodity value chains in clearly defined geographic clusters, through the Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC) Initiative.
Our major activities include conducting strategic and analytical studies, providing technical implementation support, coordinating platforms to better integrate partners and projects, and designing and directly leading a number of implementation projects. Our headquarters are in Addis Ababa, and we have regional offices in Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray regional offices, allowing us to work closely with a wide range of public, private and development sector partners across the country.
Our Culture
We have an exceptional team of highly competent employees with a proven track record of success in managing complex activities and achieving transformational results. Our culture is one where talented, dedicated and adaptable individuals are committed to doing their best and exhibit great team work to achieve excellent results.
At ATA, we provide an exceptional platform for people who want to achieve their highest potential and make a meaningful contribution in changing the country’s agricultural sector. We offer rewarding work in a young, fast-paced growing organization with passionate, committed, motivated colleagues and excellent career development and training. We recognize our most valuable assets are our staff and are committed to providing our employees with the tools, training and mentorships necessary to achieve their career goals.
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
The Information Technology Director will be responsible for the strategy, management, and execution of all IT infrastructures of the ATA. In this role, the Director will oversee technical projects in alignment with ATA’s goals. Furthermore, the Director will be responsible for the delivery of networks, development, and recovery of systems and processes. In this role, the Director is expected to effectively manage all 3rd party hosting and managed service experience, with an ability to build a team and deliver on commitments. The leader must be hands-on with strong infrastructure design and change management skills while developing strategic direction to the organization based on best practices.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop and implement the ATA IT policy, proper security controls, and best practice guides to protect the ATA and serve its interests
- Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; and anticipating requirements
- Plan, direct, and manage the operation systems and network infrastructure
- Develop and maintain team matrices and statistics to effectively lead the team. Ensure timely resolution of service incidents and completion of service requests
- Develop and implement IT Change Management procedures. Manage and oversee the planning and deployment of updates to production applications, and confirm successful implementation
- Maintain organization’s effectiveness and efficiency by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies
- Preserves assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures
- Direct the daily operation and delivery of commodity IT services and key business applications, to include IT infrastructure management, service management and applications management
- Monitor and control the IT expenditure to budget
- Manage IT staff in an effective manner (hiring, motivation, retention, performance management, development, etc.).
Job Requirements
- Minimum Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Applied mathematics, Computer Engineering, Statistics or related fields.
- Minimum 10 years’ experience of which at least 4 years in a managerial role.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment, with an emphasis on high-performance, teamwork, accountability and results.
- Ability to manage multiple IT disciplines, including network operations software development, operations and technical support, and a broad knowledge of systems, applications and operating systems.
- Responsible for providing management of a core area of accountability within the IT organization that includes people and functional management. Facilitates the resource management, subject matter expertise coverage of deliverables, and ongoing coaching and mentoring of their staff.
- Experienced in mid-to-large scale project management, including budgeting.
- Experience overseeing work of consultants and permanent staff.
- Excellent communication skills at all levels and across the business, with the ability to negotiate with, and manage third parties.
- Fluency in Amharic and a working language of English required.
How to Apply
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to submit (i) a cover letter, (ii) CV (maximum 5 pages) to https://apply.ata.gov.et OR [email protected] by mentioning the position title on the subject line.
Please DO NOT submit scans of certificates with your application.
Women are highly encouraged to apply.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
More Information
- Job City Addis Ababa
